Dublin life & culture.

Nothing stops production at The Irish Times…

On September 18, 1951 The Irish Times of the day was a most unusual one. It was only four pages of content, owing to a fire which destroyed about a third of the companies premises on Westmoreland Street. Below is the front page of the paper which I picked up recently. Note the side column entitled ‘They all offered to help’ detailing the manner in which other Dublin based publications offered assistance to get the paper out on the 18th. It was an incredible display of the work ethic and attitude of the paper that on September 18 1951, one could still purchase The Irish Times from their local vender.

Click on the image to enlarge it. The paper was quite fragile so I didn’t wish to scan it.

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It might be worth your while to research the winter of 1947 when Dubs went out to the country en masse to help bring in the harvest. It’s a major event in the memory of people who grew up then but’s it little know about now. People donated their time and travelled from the city in all manner of transport.

Even today they still help farmers but it’s much more efficient: they send taxpayers money in the form of subsidies straight through the letterbox. No mention of cutbacks there.